April 16 The Emmpire strikes back.
Those who read the April 14 edition of this blog will certainly have noticed the misspellings and even bizarre statements. I very much fear my computer has been hacked. (Indeed,…
Graeme Decarie
April 14:: Hard /tunes at tthe cinoyter
The blog is late because I’ve been having quite a few obvious attackes on my computer. The most recent makes it impossible for me to send any mail. I hope…
April 11: No. It ddoesn’t get better.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/coronavirus-who-will-be-winners-and-losers-in-new-world-order Much of North America’s news media treat our current crisis from a very local point of view. But this is not a local crisis. China, for example, thinks that…
April 9: George Washington amd tje tramsfer pf Brotish upper-class arrogance toe America.
I live in the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. It has a very large war museum, essentially of world wars one and two. It has quite a collection…
April 7: A busy day
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/how-rich-do-you-have-to-be-to-not-pay-taxes/502817/ This report is actually kind to our billionaires._________________________________________________________________ https://north99.org/2019/11/22/a-new-statistic-about-canadian-billionaires-shows-why-we-need-a-wealth-tax/_______________________________________________________________https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/10/09/Tax-Billionaires-No-Brainer/———————————————————————————————- Probably,even worse is the record of many international companies , including Canadian ones, in hiding their profits in overseas banks…
April 4::: The more things change, the more stary t’re the same.
This one is a little short because not much of the news is new. As an added hazard to my life, my print of if is so small as to…
April 3: little change in the news – and much repetition.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/03/jared-kushner-coronavirus-pandemic_________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2020/04/ontarios-covid-19-plans-workers-need-much-more-work________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-pandemic-and-next-great-crisisThe same is happening to the Arctic. Antarctica is warming at record speed. It could even be heading back many thousands of years to when the region was…
April 2: Writing a blog is hell……
…that’s why this one will be brief. I had spent many hours writing it, and was into the home stretch. And then it all disappeared. This has heppened before though,…
Feb.31: And Worse
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/30/self-isolate-giant-yacht-david-geffen-social-media I’m so happy for the super rich who can pass this awkward time at sea in their multi million dollar yachts. and their doctors and their services and their…
March 28: Nore of the same
The Irving family of New Brunswick has been plundering the people of New Brunswick and of Canada for what will soon be a hundred years. It poisons the province’s forest…
March 26: And it goes on……
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/03/united-nations-calls-peace-during-coronavirus-pandemic-war Something I should have made clear from the start is that this blog is not intended to be the usual sort of news sheet. We can get lots of…
March 24: It was the worst of days.
The problems is bigger even than coronavirus. It goes back to 1945 – and earlier, much earlier. Almost all wars in history go back to greed. The news media always…
March20: A ray of light?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/chinese-life-slowly-gets-back-to-normal-as-the-epidemic-subsides-coronavirus_________________________________________________________________ Note in the report below that China has no new cases within China. The only new cases – a small number – are Chinese who contracted it while abroad.…
March 19: Some good news………
…….. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/19/us-healthcare-industry-working-class-deaths________________________________________________________________ And some, possibly, bad. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/19/ivanka-trump-coronavirus-brand________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/mar/19/how-donald-trump-changed-course-on-coronavirus_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/19/us-healthcare-industry-working-class-deaths Capitalism doesn’t work. Get used to it._________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/revealed-the-great-european-refugee-scandal________________________________________________________________…and another piece of good news.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus________________________________________________________________And another…. https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/mar/10/wuhan-closes-last-makeshift-coronavirus-hospital-video_________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-covid-19-canada-world-march19-1.5502505________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ohio-primary-coronavirus-1.5499987 The U.S. is crashing…
March 17: The wasteland we have created.
Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper, and one of the world’s best. I don’t use it much for my blog because it costs money – and there’s a limit to how…
March 14:A planet run by greedy fools.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/coronavirus-lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous-how-the-1-are-coping https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-sean-mallen-coronavirus-1.5491827 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/13/donald-trump-coronavirus-national-emergency-sketch https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/14/trump-may-exploit-coronavirus-crisis Trump has done nothing – and there’s still no sign of him doing anything signficant. Will that hurt him at the polls? I doubt it. Nor…
March 12: Which side are you on?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-symptoms-what-are-they-and-should-i-see-a-doctor________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/12/trump-coronavirus-ban-travel-backfired And he’s doing all this through an American health care system that works at high, high cost, essentially to produce profits for the super wealthy who own it.So…
March 10: It doesn’t get better.
Despite Trump’s assurances that coronavirus is no big deal, all of Italy has been shut down by it. And NOBODY has even a rough count of how many Americans have…
March 7: A bad day…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/us-coronavirus-death-toll-washington-state It should be obvious that Trump is wildly incompetent as president. He has made no serious attempt to ensure that everyone has access to health care; and he refuses…
March 06: I’m sorry. I’m even sorry I’m sorry……
This blog is late because I had a visit from my sister whom I haven’t seen for several years. It’s also short because, on the side, I like to have…